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Episode 115: Timothy Garton Ash on What It Means to Be European

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Why 1989 Happened: Contingency and Fortuna

Garton Ash attributes 1989's collapse to Gorbachev, dissidents, US policy, and Western magnetism, stressing historical luck.

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